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		<title>This and That</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The sumo tournament in Osaka has reached the midway point, and as expected sole yokozuna Hakuho (7-0) has dominated.  But two promising rikishi have also stepped up to take advantage of the opening created by yokozuna Asashoryu&#8217;s sudden retirement last month:  ozeki Harumafuji, the former Ama and a disappointment since his promotion to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oe Kenzaburo at Chicago Redux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  Here&#8217;s a scan of a very nice column (Japanese-language only) that Oe Kenzaburo published in yesterday&#8217;s Asahi newspaper about his visit last week to the University of Chicago.  (Click on the image to get a larger version).

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		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/03/17/oe-kenzaburo-at-chicago-redux/</link>
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		<title>Check Out the Shoes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  Granted, this may be taking my Kinks mania in an entirely unhealthy direction, but just check out the shoes Ray wore at his gig in Kansas City last night (full review of the show here).  I thought it was pretty cool when for my birthday last year my wife and daughter finally [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/03/16/check-out-the-shoes/</link>
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		<title>Ray Davies at the Riviera, 3/13/2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[   It was a terrific show last night, powerful enough to sweep away any lingering mental and spiritual cobwebs.  It was, in short, just what I needed.  After a spirited opening set by LA band The 88, Ray took the stage with his accompanist, Bill Shanley, and opened with the wistful [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/03/14/ray-davies-at-the-riviera-3132010/</link>
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		<title>This and That</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  On the dark side, tomorrow we take our first step into that gray new world known as post-Asashoryu sumo.  Yokozuna Hakuho is the prohibitive favorite to take home the title in Osaka (has it really been a year since I was there in person for Day 8 last March, watching Asashoryu knock [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/03/13/this-and-that-12/</link>
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		<title>The Mechanics of Reading Poetry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Siobhan Phillips has an interesting blog post on the mechanics of reading poetry.  
When I wrote The Poetics of the Everyday, I wanted to learn how quotidian experience could foster rather than frustrate poetry: how twentieth-century poets turn everyday life, so often a chore or requirement, into a creative activity. More specifically, I wanted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/03/11/the-mechanics-of-reading-poetry/</link>
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		<title>Songs in High Rotation Just Now</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  &#8220;Little Bird&#8221; by Eels (from their new CD, End Times) is one of the better break-up songs I&#8217;ve encountered lately.

   I have tickets to see the one and only Ray Davies here in Chicago on Saturday night.  Here&#8217;s one of the back-catalog songs he&#8217;s resuscitated for the current tour:

  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/03/10/songs-in-high-rotation-just-now/</link>
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		<title>All I Know is What I Read in the Papers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[   There was an amusing editorial cartoon in the Chicago Tribune this past weekend by Scott Stantis.  A mother sits at the breakfast table, reading the newspaper, and announces to her two children that the Post Office might stop delivering letters on Saturday.  Her son, busy at his laptop, asks, &#8220;What&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/03/09/all-i-know-is-what-i-read-in-the-papers/</link>
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		<title>Summer Memories&#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[   I graduated from high school in the summer of 1979.  It was a private prep academy that I attended on a full scholarship:  we were on various forms of public assistance during my teens, and my mother could never have afforded tuition.  Primarily because of my sense of humor, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/03/07/summer-memories/</link>
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		<title>A Novelist Re-Reads Kaitokudo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[   I had the honor and pleasure yesterday of introducing and serving as interpreter for Oe Kenzaburo, 1994 Nobel Laureate in Literature, in this year&#8217;s installment of the Tetsuo Najita Distinguished Lecture series here at the University of Chicago.  Professor Najita was in attendance, too, and it turned into a very moving [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/03/05/a-novelist-re-reads-kaitokudo/</link>
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